American light designer James F. Ingalls graduated from the Yale School of Drama as a stage manager. He then toured as stage manager with the Twyla Tharp Dance Company, where he worked alongside Jennifer Tipton, thereby beginning his career as a lighting designer. He has worked extensively on Broadway and in London, as well as for Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Opera, Playwrights Horizons, Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, and Steppenwolf. He has designed lighting for a large number of ballets, plays, and operas, including John Adams’ “The Gospel According to the Other Mary” and “El Niño”, Antonio Estévez’ “Cantata Criolla”, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s “The Tristan Project”, Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex” / “Symphony of Psalms”, Kaija Saariaho’s “La Passion de Simone” and “L’amour de loin”, and György Kurtág’s “Kafka Fragments”. His work includes many productions with Peter Sellars (“Desdemona”, “Adriana Mater”, “The Rake’s Progress”, “The Death of Klinghoffer”, “Saint François d’Assise”, among others). In dance he has worked with companies including the American Ballet Theatre, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Paul Taylor’s American Dance, Dutch National Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and the Mark Morris Dance Group. James F. Ingalls’ designs for Mark Morris include “Orfeo ed Euridice” (Metropolitan Opera), “King Arthur” (English National Opera), “Sylvia”, “Sandpaper Ballet”, “Maelstrom” and “Pacific” (San Francisco Ballet), “Platée” (Royal Opera House Covent Garden and New York City Opera), “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato”, “Dido and Aeneas” and “The Hard Nut” (MMDG), “Ein Herz” (Paris Opera Ballet) and the initial White Oak Project tour. He has been honoured repeatedly by the Drama-Logue Award, Obie Award, and the Joseph Jefferson Award for Lighting Design.